6 Heppner Gazette Times, April 23, 1942
STATE
CAPITAL
NEWS
o Employee Shift
o Old Age Measure
o Election Lethargy
By A. L. LINDBECK
Salem Scores of former state em
ployees have quit their jobs during
the past few months to join Uncle
Sam's fighting forces or to accept
better paying positions in defense
industries.
Fifty-seven employees have quit
the state tuberculosis hospital alone.
The state hospital at Salem reports
the loss of more than 50 employees
since the first of the year and losses
at other institutions are proportion
ately heavy.
While it has been possible to fill
many of the positions requiring no
technical training with older men and
women who are content to work for
the state pay scale, this has not
been true of the positions requiring
training such as nurses and techni
cians in the hospitals. As a result
many of the institutions are oper
ating shorthanded and will probably
be compelled to "muddle through"
as best they can for the remainder
of the emergency.
Pay increases have been approved
by the Board of Control for a num
ber of employees in key positions
but fairly rigid budgets prevent any
blanket increase at this time, al
though it now seems fairly certain
that this will be one of the problems
with which the legislature will have
to contend when they meet again
next January.
Theo. Nelson, secretary of the Ore
gon Pension Federation announced .
in Salem this week that his organi
zation is getting ready to initiate an
all-inclusive old age retirement mea
sure. According to plans tentatively
agreed upon by the sponsoring group
it is proposed that pensions to needy
aged be increased to a minimum of
$30 a month $60 for man and wife
and that persons not eligible to
pensions because of need to be re
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You're in for the surprise of your life when
you see and drive the John Deere Model "H"
the sensational new small tractor that handles
two-row equipment and completely replaces
animal power on small and large farms every
where, cutting costs 'way below their former
level, and making farming more profitable.
And when you learn the price, you'll wonder
how John Deere can give you so much in a tractor
that sells for so little.
In addition, the Model "H" not only burns low
cost fuel but it uses only 13 to 12 as much fuel
on the many jobs within its power range, as would
larger tractors handling the same load.
Come in, see it, and get "the surprise of your
life."
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tired on a retirement pay of at least
$25 a month. In this latter group
would be included farmers, state
employees, housewives and others
not now covered by the federal re
tirement plan. To finance this re
tirement program it is proposed that
every adult person be required to
pay monthly premiums, tentatively
fixed at $1, the money so raised to
be matched by the state out of sur
plus income tax revenue, liquor
profits or any other funds that might
be available. Nelson said that the
Federation expects to begin circula
tion of initiative petitions soon in
order to get the measure on the
November ballot.
Approximately 50,000 books were
donated by Oregon citizens in the
Victory Book campaign which clos
ed last week, according to Miss El
eanor Stephens, director of the cam
paign in this state. Employees of
the state library, donating their ser
vices, worked nights to sort and
classify the 30,000 books cleared thru
the library at Salem, with WPA
workers mending damaged volumes
and Red Cross volunteers typing'
the book records. The books will
be made available to members of
the armed forces through libraries
in the various cantonments and
USO houses throughout the state.
Books not suitable for the soldiers
will be made available for children
and women in the defense areas.
Books not suitable for reading pur
poses will be sold to provide a fund
for the purchase of technical books
for the soldier libraries.
Colonel Ralph P. Cowgill, com
mander of Oregon's state guard,, has
been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-general.
In announcing the
promotion Governor Sprague ex
plained that Cowgill's command al
ready exceeds that of many briga-dir-gonerals.
Candidates for public office are
said to find the public discourag
ingly indifferent to' the course of
the political campaign. Of course
this is an "off!" year in elections in
the national sense, there being no
presidential campaign involved. But
it is a distinctly "on" year in the
state campaign with a governor, sec
retary of state, state senator, four
IlUl'ITTlll
congressmen, three supreme court
judges, a labor commissioner, a su
perintendent of public instruction Aa
choose, not to mention a number of
circuit judges and a full comple
ment of senate and house members.
Apparently, however, the war is
monopolizing public interest to the
exclusion of all else, including pol
itics. Early returns from outstate
counties show sharp declines in reg
istration figures on all fronts. A part
of this decline might be blamed on
the migration of voters to larger
population centers in search of jobs
in defense industries but even in
Multnomah county where ship buil
ding has attracted thousands of new
workers there are 10,000 fewer vot
ers registered than there were two
years ago.
Expected to cut heavily into the
voting this year is the presence of
thousands of men in the armed for
ces of the nation. Many, if not most,
of these have their names on the
registration lists, but will not be in
position to take advantage of their
right to vote this year. As a result
veteran observers are already pre
dicting one of the lightest primary
votes in recent campaigns.
The war and taxes provided most
of the candidates the themes for
their campaign slogans this year.
The official list of candidates as
certified to the county clerks by
the state department contains 67
slogans which feature the war effort
with 63 others appealing for votes
on the strength of promises to re
duce taxes or cut governmental costs.
Nearly a - score of candidates for
legislative positions have injected
the old age pension theme into
their campaign slogans while a few
ring in the milk control controversy
in their appeal for votes.
Plans for storing foodstuffs and
clothing in areas removed from the
coast to meet the emergency needs
of a possible evacuation are already
well advanced in Oregon, Governor
Sprague told Claude R. Wickard,
secretary of agriculture, this week.
Storing of these emergency supplies
against a possible enemy invasion
of the Oregon coast, is to be han
dled by the public welfare com
mission. First of 600,000 official voters
pamphlets to be distributed this
year went into the mails this week
addressed to Democrats of the east
ern Oregon congressional district.
Other pamphlets will be mailed as
fast as they are delivered from the
state printing plant which is work
ing day and night on the big order.
Of the $2,485,554 paid out in ben
efits to jobless workers by the Ore
gon unemployment compensation
commission last year $759,163 or
more than one-fourth of the total,
went to employees of logging and
lumbering firms. Indicative of the
improved position of this industry
over that of 1940 the amount paid
to jobless employees in this classi
fication for 1941 was only slightly
more than one-half that paid to the
tame classification the previous year.
Workers in wholesale and retail es
tablishments drew $593,160 in jobless
benefits in 1941 and construction
workers, $21,011.
Feed Wheat Program
Eases Shortages
The AAA feed wheat program,
through which government - held
wheat is being released at local
loan rates for feeding purposes, has
been credited by the Oregon USDA
War board with a major contribu
tion toward meeting milk, egg and
pork production goals set for the
state under the Food for Freedom
program.
Reviewing progress of production
to date at its April meeting, the
board found that s the 500 carloads
of wheat sold to Oregon farmers
under the program had helped re
lieve a deficiency of feeds created
by the late spring and the increased
livestock numbers.
The board recommended to the
secretary of agriculture that the
feed wheat program be continued "as
the best means of converting the tre
mendous wheat surplus into needed
livestock and poultry products, and
of alleviating the acute grain stor
age problem."
Mrs. Leonard Carlson left for
Portland Monday to visit her daugh
ter Joyce and son-in-law, Johnnie
Darst. Mr. Darst has enlisted in the
navy and is leaving on the 22nd.
CITATION Probate No. 977
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF MORROW.
In the Matter of the Estate of WIL
LIAM McCULLOUGH, Deceased.
To Fannie McCullough, William
Henry McCullough, David Walter
McCullough, Mabel Ely Brion,
Phyllis Agnes Beikoff, Gaytor
Howard McCullough and Victoria
May Shaw, heirs at law of the
above named deceased; and also
all unknown heirs of the above
named deceased:
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON, you and each of you
are hereby cited and directed to
appear in the above entitled Court
within twenty (20) weeks from the
date of the first publication of this
citation upon you to show cause, if
any exists, why an order should not
be made authorizing Robert McCul
lough, administrator of the estate
of the above named deceased, to sell
the following described real prop
erty of said estate, situate in Mor
row County, Oregon, to-wit:
An undivided one-tenth (1-10)
interest in and to: SWV4, WV2
of SEy4 Sec. 17; S, SV2 of Ny2
Sec. 18; EV2, SWy4, E of NWy4,
NWy4 of NWy4 Sec. 19; swy4,
wy2 of Nwy4, Nwy4 of nej4
Sec. 20; NVa, NMs of Sy2, Sy2 of
SWy4, Sec. 29; EV2 of Sec. 30;
NE14, NWy4 of SEy4 Sec. 31;
Ey2 of Ey2, Ny2 of Nwy4 sec 32;
swy4 of Nwy4, wy2 of swy4
Sec. 33; also, Commencing at
the NW corner of the NWy4 of
NWy4 of said Sec. 33, running
thence South 80 rods, thence
East 80 rods, thence in a north
esterly direction to the place of
beginning, all in Township 3
South, Range 28 E.W.M.;
Also:
Wy2, Wy2 of SEy4 Sec. 4; also,
commencing at the NW corner
of SWy4 of NEy4 of said Sec. 4,
running thence South 80 rods,
thence East 80 rods, thence in a
Northwesterly direction to the
point of beginning; the Ny2,
NWy4 of SWy4 Sec. 5; E2 of
Sec. 8; Wy2, Wy2 of E, SEV4
of NEy4, Ey2 of SEy4 Sec. 9;
NEy4 Ey2 of Nwy4, Nwy4 of
NWV4 Sec. 17; all Sec. 16; all in
Township 4 South, Range 28 East
of Willamette Meridian,
as prayed for in the petition on file
in the above entitled Court for the
purpose of paying the cost of admin
istration and other claims against
said estate. Date of first publication
April 9, 1942. Date of last publica
tion May 7, 1942.
WITNESS, the Hon. Bert Johnson,
Judge of the above entitled court
with the seal of said Court affixed
this 3rd day of April, 1942.
C. W. BARLOW, Clerk
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